Railroad-car chimney



(Model.)

0. A. DUBEY.

RAILROAD OAR CHIMNEY.

No. 266,787. Patents WITNESSES r INVENTO kf/wza/ BY ATTORNEYS.

UNTTTD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. DUBEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

RAlLROAD-CAR CHIMNEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,787, dated October31, 1882.

Application filed August 22, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. DUBEY, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedRailroad-Oar Chimney, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Owing to'the rude construction of the chimneys now in use onrailroad-cars, it is the practice, as soon as the summer season beginsand heat is no longer needed in the cars, to remove the chimneys andpack them away, to remain until the cars are again required to beheated, when they are again put in place upon the cars for use.

My invention seeks to provide a railroadcar chimney having suchconstruction that it need not be removed from the car, but may bepermanently attached thereto, thus avoiding the labor of removing andreplacing the chimneys, and the wear and tear incident thereto and tothe packing of the chimneys away.

teference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming partoi'this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 shows in front elevation my new and improved railroad-carchimney attached to the car and extended for use. Fig. 2 is a similarview showing the chimney collapsed and closed from the inside; and Fig.3 is a sectional elevation of the chimney, showing the parts incollapsed position and the chimney closed from the inside.

A represents my new and improved railroadcar chimney placed upon theroof I) of the car 0; and 1) represents the stove, and E the stovepipeleading from the stove D up to and into the chimney A. The chimney A ismade up of the inner permanent section, F, intermediate section, F, andouter section, F, and coveringrone G. The sections are puttogetherintelescope form, so that they are adapted either to be closed upon eachother, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or extended, as shown in Fig. l. Thecovering-cone G of the chimney is by prefer ence made adjustable bymeans of the rods d d and loops ff, secured to the outside of the outersection, F, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, through which loops the rodspass, so that (ModeL) when the chimney is collapsed or closed the covermay be shoved down to entirely close the top of the chimney, asindicated in Figs. 2 and 3, and when extended raised above the section Fto allow the draft, as indicated in Fig. 1. The inner section, F, isprovided near its lower end with the flange H, by which the chimney issecured to the roof of the car, the lower end of the said inner sectionbeing adapted to pass through the chimney-opening in the roof, as shownin the drawings.

The chimney being collapsed, in order to put it in condition for use itis only necessary to extend the sections to the position shown in Fig. lby taking hold of the handle 0 at the center of the cover G, which willat the same time raise the cover off from the upper end of the outersection, F, and open the chimney. The reverse movement will collapse thechimney and close it from the outside. For closing it from the inside 1provide the flanged cap J, which fits the inner end of the innersection, F, and is adapted to be placed therein, as shown in Figs. 2 and3. This cap may be omitted, if desired.

By securing the chimney to the car by means of the inner section, F, andadapting the outer sections to slide upon it, it will be seen that whenthe chimney is collapsed it will be entirely closed from the weather andwill entirely close the chimney-opening in the roofof the car, so thatthe chimney need not be removed nor extra fitting provided for closingthe chimney-openings when the stoves are re moved from the cars.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to make a chimney in telescopingsections, so as to slide over one another.

What I claim is- The chimney for railroad-cars, made substantially asherein shown and described, consisting of the flanged section F, slidingouter sections, F F, and the adjustable or sliding cover G, as and forthe purposes set forth.

CHARLES AUGUSTA DUBEY.

\Vitnesses JOHN THOMPSON, JOHN BERRY.

